Joey wrote on Dec 16^th, 2010 at 6:13pm:

Joey, it's what Jagger said essentially regarding the Beatles in an interview I saw once, thanks.

" December 17, 2010 -- Daily Mail

Just an intimate gig for 300: Sir Paul McCartney's lunchtime gig at the 100 Club

It was of the most intimate gigs of his long and illustrious career.


Sir Paul McCartney this afternoon played to an audience of just 300 delirious fans packed into a tiny London club.

The former Beatle played the one hour and 50 minute 'gig' at the famous 100 Club on London's Oxford Street at lunchtime, returning to his and early days of playing cramped, sweaty bars.

McCartney, 68, played the gig ahead of two Christmas concerts which take place in London and his home city of Liverpool, tomorrow and Monday respectively.


A friend said: 'Paul fancied doing a club gig before Christmas and this was a good cause to support.'

Celebrities in attendance included Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and his partner Ana Araujo.

The survival of the 100 Club, a venue renowned as a hotbed for the rise of punk in the 1970s, has been under threat because of a huge rent rise.

McCartney played for almost two hours, beginning just after 1pm lunchtime.

The show also marked a return to his early days as a musician, learning his craft with The Beatles with endless hours of performing in bars in Hamburg and Liverpool before landing a record deal.

After walking to the stage with his band performing an a cappella Hey Jude, Sir Paul asked fans: 'Who wants to save the 100 Club?'

But the lunchtime start seemed to be a slight shock to the system. 'It's too early for this,' he joked.

The star opened the show with a rock 'n' roll standard Matchbox by the legendary Carl Perkins.


He then launched into Beatles hit Magical Mystery Tour for the cheering standing-room-only crowd who had paid £60 each for tickets.

He played both Beatles and Wings standards including Drive My Car, Hey Jude, Let It Be, Get Back, Jet, Band On Run and Maybe I'm Amazed.

Macca also played The One After 909, one of his and Lennon's earliest songs together believed to date from 1957.

He also played rock 'n' roll covers from he Beatles' early days when he and John Lennon were teenagers in Liverpool in the 1950s.

McCartney said: 'I remember being in John's flat when he was at the art school and we put this record on by Johnny Burnette.'

He also gave a glimpse of how times had changed since the band were first performing.


'We only used to do autographs on the back of ciggie packets or bus tickets. Now someone's just said can you sign my iPad. So that's progress, Mr Job.'

At another point, McCartney ­ who was not joined by his girlfriend Nancy Shevell on this occasion - said: 'Are you having a good time? So are we?'




Then, in a plea to bosses to think again over the club's future, he continued: 'Do we want to save the 100 Club? Yes. Thank you for coming here. It's been brilliant being here. Please and try and save it because it's really cool.'  "

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Joey, are macca gigs ever tarped?

Joey? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBCE11ArBTA&feature=player_embedded#!

" December 20, 2010 -- Macca Report News EXCLUSIVE!!!
Report compiled from Donna Jackson (Macca Reporter) Bob Gannon (Macca Reporter) and other sources.

EXCLUSIVE Photos by Donna Jackson and videos!!! Videos from Elena Carmarinha.

Paul at the 02 Academy in Liverpool December 20, 2010


Concert Set List

1. Honey Hush
2. Magical Mystery Tour
3. Jet
4. Got To Get You Into My Life
5. All My Loving
6. One After 909
7. Drive My Car
8. Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady (afterwards sings a few lines of "Baby Face")
9. The Long and Winding Road
10. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
11. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (Ray Charles)
12. Maybe I'm Amazed
13. Blackbird
14. Calico Skies
15. I've Just Seen A Face
16. And I Love Her
17. Petrushka
18. Dance Tonight
19. Eleanor Rigby
20. Hitch Hike
21. Highway
22. Something
23. Band On The Run
24. Back In The USSR
25. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
26. Back In The USSR
27. A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance)
28. Let It Be
29. Hey Jude with Baby Face intro

Encore 1
30. Day Tripper
31. I Saw Her Standing There
32. Get Back

Encore 2
34. Yesterday
35. Lady Madonna
36. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/ The End


This may be one of the few times besides the 100 Club Paul has not played "Live And Let Die" at a concert. Lately the song has been omitted at the smaller venues because of safety reasons with the pyrotechnics. Also dropped was "Here Today" and no "Wonderful Christmastime." The venue's capacity is about 1,200. James McCartney played the 02 Academy early in the year.

When Paul arrived at the O2, he was driving the car, and Nancy was sitting in the passenger seat.

At the show, Paul mentioned how much he loved being home and mentioned various local places that meant something to him, or that had been important in his career. Paul joked that tomorrow he'd be playing Bootle Hall which brought a lot of laughter from the hometown crowd.

The crowd sang along to "The Long And Winding Road" as well as other songs.

He also made mention that there were a lot of family members in the audience and many overseas visitors at the show.

When he returned to the stage for the first encore the audience was still singing "Hey Jude." Paul obviously touched, said "I'm glad you called me back."

Review by Macca Reporter Bob Gannon

Paul drove himself to the venue tonight. Prior to the show starting, Beatrice could be seen playing by the piano.

Great, great show to end this year! Liverpool crowd was very strong singing along with Paul. Paul was absolutely animated and was hamming it up all night! The set list changed a little bit.

The venue was very small and the GA (general admission) crowd packed in like sardines. It was extremely hot inside and at some point, security started to give away free water to the people up front. Security was also very tight on cameras for some reason.

Paul talked about, if it was possible to excavate the pyramids that it should be easier to excavate the Cavern.

He stated that about half the crowd was family tonight and said, "I see some people from the USA" then welcomed everyone from all over the world who had come to the show.

He had a false start at the beginning of All My Loving.

After Band on the Run, Paul sang bits and then the crowd sang them ending in a barking noise. After they repeated him, he said, "Dad they're copying me!". Then "I am not!" "You are too!"

A lot of smiles from Paul and band tonight who I think thoroughly loved playing to the hometown crowd.

After "Hey Jude" and the first bow, the crowd continued singing until Paul came back on stage.

Upon leaving, all in attendance was given a souvenir ticket for the event like Hammersmith Apollo gig.


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December 20, 2010 -- Liverpool Daily Post

CONCERT REVIEW: Paul McCartney at the O2 Academy Liverpool

It was a triumphant Paul McCartney who held the O2 Academy stage for two-and-a-half hours last night, barely pausing for breath in a good-humoured homecoming gig packed with sing-along hits.

He saved the 1969 single Get Back until the end of his first encore, but it would have better fitted the introduction as the recently announced concert was, as the ex-Beatle said himself, a nostalgia trip.

Warmly greeting the audience as if they were a handful of people rather than a crowd of hundreds, Macca shared memories of Liverpool between songs; writing One After 909 with John Lennon in the McCartney's Forthlin Road council house and being born in Walton Hospital - "in World War I," he cracked.

The set took in the Fab Four, Wings (Band on the Run, Jet), his 2008 album Electric Arguments created with record producer Youth (Highway) and solo work (Dance Tonight).

Vintage versions of Drive My Car and All My Loving took him back to the days of his early fame, and he paused to suggest the original Cavern should be excavated.

Then it was off to Hamburg for a cover of Ray Charles' Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, before a story about being honoured to play a gig at The Apollo Theater in Harlem last week following in the footsteps of his heroes James Brown and Ray Charles.

It was interesting to witness one so idolised being humbled by such a brief encounter with his own idols.

McCartney paid moving tributes to his late fellow Beatles - a rendition of Sometimes on the ukulele for George Harrison ("I played it for him now I'll play it for you") and Day in the Life merging with Give Peace a Chance for Lennon.

However, Ringo Starr, outshone by Macca's charismatic drummer Abe Laboriel Jr, didn't get a mention.

An emotional Let It Be and Hey Jude, with McCartney on piano, finished the main set but it was only seconds before he was back again, fizzing with energy, for Day Tripper, I Saw Her Standing There and Get Back.

A poignant Yesterday, on solo acoustic guitar, Lady Madonna and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band completed the concert.

"It's great to be finishing the year home again" said McCartney. "It's beautiful."

And the cheering crowd, of all ages and backgrounds, clearly agreed.  "

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" December 22, 2010 -- BBC News

Beatles' Abbey Road zebra crossing given listed status

The Abbey Road zebra crossing in north London - made famous after appearing on a Beatles album cover - has been given Grade II listed status.

The crossing - the first of its kind to be listed - is being recognised for its "cultural and historical importance" following advice from English Heritage.

The Beatles were photographed on Abbey Road in Ian Macmillan's iconic cover shot for the 1969 album Abbey Road.

Sir Paul McCartney said it was the "icing on the cake" in a great year.

The original zebra crossing, where the photograph was taken, was moved several metres for traffic management reasons more than 30 years ago, and no original features remain.

'Huge cultural pull'

But John Penrose, Minister for Tourism and Heritage, said: "This London zebra crossing is no castle or cathedral but, thanks to the Beatles and a 10-minute photo-shoot one August morning in 1969, it has just as strong a claim as any to be seen as part of our heritage."

Roger Bowdler, head of designation at English Heritage, said: "This is obviously an unusual case and, although a modest structure, the crossing has international renown and continues to possess huge cultural pull - the temptation to recreate that iconic 1969 album cover remains as strong as ever.

"Together with the nearby Abbey Road studios, also listed at Grade II on our advice, they remain a Mecca for Beatles fans the world over."

Sir Paul said: "It's been a great year for me and a great year for the Beatles and hearing that the Abbey Road crossing is to be preserved is the icing on the cake."

The crossing is outside the Abbey Road studios, where the Beatles recorded much of their output.

That building was granted Grade II listed status in February.

A Grade II listing, the most common protected status, means that a building or monument is recognised as nationally important and of special interest. "




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Who wouldn't want this man representing them?? Just look at the shelf!!!!

************* SUN'kins !!!! ***************



"  Here comes the Sun 'Kins........
Here comes the Sun 'Kins........
Ev’rybody’s laughing
ev’rybody’s happy.
Here comes the Sun 'Kins.

Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon.
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol.
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel. "


Joey Macca , Est. 2010 and loved by everybody
( Proud Member of Team Macca )

" December 31, 2010 -- Rolling Stone

Merle Haggard, a Kennedy Honor recipient, talks about what it was like to be sitting next to Paul at the Kennedy Honors

RS: What was it like hanging out with Paul McCartney?

Haggard: He's Paul McCartney, man. You can't forget that he wrote those songs. That kept going through my mind: I'm an aspiring songwriter and sat beside the guy that wrote "Yesterday." I recorded that.

Some guys are famous for some songs you don't remember, but that's not the case there. When they started "Hey Jude," with this wonderful orchestra, the building came apart. Everybody in the audience was singing it. It was a chiller.  "

Bono and Edge appeared in a pre-taped interview with Carson Daly during his New Year's Eve show on NBC this evening to plug Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.  Bono called it a "pop art opera," while Edge defended the size of the production saying, "If you're not going to do something revolutionary, why bother?"

Bono responded to the "Why Spider-Man?" question saying, "We needed a compelling reason for people to go to the theater in case we didn't manage to pull it off."

Daly asked them to paraphrase their hopes for 2011: "World Peace" - Edge; "A rediscovery of the magic that's in the idea of America - Americans realizing what they've got" - Bono.

If anyone's wondering why Carson Daly's New Year's Eve show scored Bono and Edge as opposed to the many other networks carrying live coverage, it's probably a family tie thing. NBC television is part of the Universal family, as are Bono and Edge

' i hear jb is planning a visit to " strawberry fields " in nyc  this spring '

http://img.poptower.com/pic-37699/kennedy-center-honors.jpgd=600 !!!!

' jb returns to the board on monday '

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